Zork Grand Inquisitor

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Enhanced DVD-Rom Version for PC

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00001NFVI
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,429 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Zork Grand Inquisitor is an adventure game in the tradition of the earlier, text-only Zork games: addictive, challenging, and dryly funny. A gorgeous first-person perspective delivers a game experience much like Myst, only within the world of Zork and the Great Underground Empire.

You begin your adventuring career as a Suck-O-Matic sales representative, caught outside the town of Port Foozle after curfew. This in itself is a life-threatening situation, because the town is under martial law. The Inquisition has arrived to stamp out all magic, and petty rule infractions are punishable by death. Soon you've landed in even more hot water, finding a talking lantern and a book of spells. Traveling with this contraband, you encounter a number of bizarre characters and attempt to outwit the Inquisition on your quest to recover the three magic artifacts that will supposedly restore magic to the land.

Zork Grand Inquisitor features super design, great graphics, and an interesting story, but its best feature is the famous Zork sense of humor. From the Grand Inquisitor's battle slogan--"I am the boss of you!"--to the snide comments your lantern makes when you get killed, this game will keep adventure fans laughing late into the night. Just be sure to keep a light on, lest you be eaten by a Grue. --Alyx Dellamonica

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for the classic adventurist!, July 1, 2001

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M. Littrell (Wales, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zork Grand Inquisitor (DVD-ROM)

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I bought this game over two years ago and it was well worth the money. Time and time again I and my family have enjoyed this rare gem.

It is difficult now to find a decent adventure game based in the classic style of simply point and click, though this game should be setting the standard. The easy control system is part of the key, you can't really get into a game if you need to memorise twenty or so keystroke combinations!

Even if you are unaware with previous "Zork" games, please don't let this put you off. The game itself consists of a very original story line weaved with a large helping of humour and suspense, it can be appreciated by both the beginner and the experienced adventure.

Graphics wise the game delights your senses by feeding your eyes with screen after screen of beautiful graphics and wonderful animated and video sequences.

Do not be suprised if you are to notice a few familiar faces in this game, although you have seen them before, they totally engulf you into the characters they portray.

So yes, I throughly recommend this game, it is one that you'll be sad to complete!

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best!, December 20, 1999

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Oregon hippy (Oregon United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zork Grand Inquisitor (DVD-ROM)

I play tons of adventure games and found this game to be one of the most well balanced games around. I don't like alot of fighting in my games, and this didnt have that at all. It was funny, great storyline and made for people who want to do more with games than blow things up. I played Zork Nemesis and wasn't too inpressed, but this one is pretty dang cool.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable, but lacking in many areas, January 14, 2000

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Michael Paulsen (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zork Grand Inquisitor (DVD-ROM)

As a longtime player of Infocom's original Zork series and other text adventures and having played a number of other graphical adventure/problem-solving games, I enjoyed Grand Inquisitor a lot. In retrospect, however, I found the puzzles to be a bit obvious and forced in many places (would Activision dare to release something as challenging as "Spellbreaker" in graphical form?). I also wish there was a bit more terrain to explore. Quite honestly, I found Zork Nemesis more challenging despite it being sinister and not in the spirit of Zork.

The interface is part of the problem. While necessary to some degree, I sometimes wish the changing/highlighting cursor interface could be downplayed a bit. The 360-degree motion is a nice improvement over typical "slide show" adventure games such as Myst and Riven, but the graphics and rendering are still a tad subpar. If there was fluid motion throughout the environments (i.e., true forward and back motion), well that would truly be something. The pop-up "menu bars" for inventory and spells is useful.

The humor in Grand Inquisitor is about right: a bit corny at times but always with its tongue-in-cheek sarcasm intact. The use of low-key actors such as Dirk Benedict, Rip Taylor, Erick Avari and Michael McKean as the voice of the Dungeon Master were all well-chosen and the video sequences were good.

Here's hoping the Zork legend continues...this time though, I hope Activision strives to make the next one bigger, more challenging and with an improved interface.